Kenneth W Tupper
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 242691 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth W Tupper |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth W |
| SOBRENOME | Tupper |
| ASSINATURA | TUPPER K W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Sharing drug checking results in a Canadian setting
This study revealed that over half the study sample shared their drug checking results with others, with results sharing being positively associated with recent drug dealing, frequent DCS utilisation, employment and ethnicity. Drug checking results were most often shared with friends, family and drug dealers. These findings extend the evidence base of DCS as a harm reduction tool by demonstrating how engagement with DCS facilitates information di…
“We don’t got that kind of time, man. We’re trying to get high!”
The tripping point
Principles, practice, and policy vacuums
The influence of context on ayahuasca experiences
Background and aimsAyahuasca is a psychedelic decoction prepared from two (or more) plants containing monoamine oxidase inhibitors,N,N-dimethyltryptamine, and other chemicals. Ayahuasca has apparently been used for centuries in the Amazon basin of South America, and in recent years has increasingly been used internationally in diverse contexts. This study aims to elucidate differences betweencross-cultural ceremonialandpsychonauticcontexts of aya…
Initial results of a drug checking pilot program to detect fentanyl adulteration in a Canadian setting
Drug checking as a potential strategic overdose response in the fentanyl era
Drug checking at an electronic dance music festival during the public health overdose emergency in British Columbia
Canadian harm reduction policies
Nourishing the Spirit
Eating disorders (EDs) are serious health conditions that are among the most difficult to treat. Innovative treatments are needed and modalities from across cultures must be considered. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive plant-based tea originally used by Amazonian indigenous groups. A growing body of research points to its promise in the healing of various mental health issues. This study explored the potential therapeutic value of ayahuasca in the con…
A Public-Health-Based Vision for the Management and Regulation of Psychedelics
The Health Officers Council of British Columbia has proposed post-prohibition regulatory models for currently illegal drugs based on public health principles, and this article continues this work by proposing a model for the regulation and management of psychedelics. This article outlines recent research on psychedelic substances and the key determinants of benefit and harm from their use. It then describes a public-health-based model for the reg…
Ayahuasca-Assisted Therapy for Addiction
INTRODUCTION: This paper reports results from a preliminary observational study of ayahuasca-assisted treatment for problematic substance use and stress delivered in a rural First Nations community in British Columbia, Canada. METHODS: The "Working with Addiction and Stress" retreats combined four days of group counselling with two expert-led ayahuasca ceremonies. This study collected pre-treatment and six months follow-up data from 12 participan…
Sex, drugs and the honour roll
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in North America, public health and social reform advocates were quick to identify and exploit the nascent modern institution of public schools as opportune spaces in which to advance their progressive projects. In particular, psychoactive substance use (at first primarily alcohol drinking) and sexuality were regarded as two domains of morally-charged social activity in which desired attitudinal …
Statement on ayahuasca
Psychoactive Substances and the English Language
This article undertakes a historical ontology of psychoactive substances, or, in other words, an exploration of the philosophical and political nature of modern categories for plants and chemicals that alter consciousness. Drawing on the ideas of Michel Foucault and Ian Hacking and using the method of critical discourse analysis, I elucidate three distinct contemporary meanings of the English word “drug.” Further, I demonstrate how these meanings…
Enteógenos e Inteligência Existencial
A partir de recentes mudanças nas legislações em relação às drogas em diferentes países, investiguei o potencial dos enteóg enos (i.e., plantas psicoativas usadas como sacramentos espiritua is) como instrumentos para favorecer a inteligência existencial. Plantas Mestres das Américas como a ayahuasca, os cogumelos de psilocibina, o peiote e o soma indo-ariano da Eurásia , são alguns dos exemplos de enteógenos que foram e continuam a ser utiliza do…
Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon
Ayahuasca commonly refers to a psychoactive Amazonian indigenous brew traditionally used for spiritual and healing purposes (that is as an entheogen). Since the late twentieth century, ayahuasca has undergone a process of globalization through the uptake of different kinds of socio-cultural practices, including its sacramental use in some new Brazilian religious movements and its commodified use in cross-cultural vegetalismo practices, or indigen…
The globalization of ayahuasca
Drugs, discourses and education
This paper examines a high school drug education text using critical discourse analysis (CDA) to discern its underlying ideological commitments and political dispositions. I begin with an overview of CDA and why it is a suitable methodology for my work, and then provide a brief history of drug education in North America. Next, I consider some of the primary discursive features of a Canadian eighth-grade drug education teacher's manual called Maki…
Teaching teachers to just say “know”
Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon
Ayahuasca commonly refers to a psychoactive Amazonian indigenous brew traditionally used for spiritual and healing purposes (that is as an entheogen). Since the late twentieth century, ayahuasca has undergone a process of globalization through the uptake of different kinds of socio-cultural practices, including its sacramental use in some new Brazilian religious movements and its commodified use in cross-cultural vegetalismo practices, or indigen…
Psychoactive Substances and the English Language
This article undertakes a historical ontology of psychoactive substances, or, in other words, an exploration of the philosophical and political nature of modern categories for plants and chemicals that alter consciousness. Drawing on the ideas of Michel Foucault and Ian Hacking and using the method of critical discourse analysis, I elucidate three distinct contemporary meanings of the English word “drug.” Further, I demonstrate how these meanings…
Teaching teachers to just say “know”
Drugs, discourses and education
This paper examines a high school drug education text using critical discourse analysis (CDA) to discern its underlying ideological commitments and political dispositions. I begin with an overview of CDA and why it is a suitable methodology for my work, and then provide a brief history of drug education in North America. Next, I consider some of the primary discursive features of a Canadian eighth-grade drug education teacher's manual called Maki…
Drug checking at an electronic dance music festival during the public health overdose emergency in British Columbia
Teaching teachers to just say “know”
The globalization of ayahuasca
Drugs, discourses and education
This paper examines a high school drug education text using critical discourse analysis (CDA) to discern its underlying ideological commitments and political dispositions. I begin with an overview of CDA and why it is a suitable methodology for my work, and then provide a brief history of drug education in North America. Next, I consider some of the primary discursive features of a Canadian eighth-grade drug education teacher's manual called Maki…
Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon
Ayahuasca commonly refers to a psychoactive Amazonian indigenous brew traditionally used for spiritual and healing purposes (that is as an entheogen). Since the late twentieth century, ayahuasca has undergone a process of globalization through the uptake of different kinds of socio-cultural practices, including its sacramental use in some new Brazilian religious movements and its commodified use in cross-cultural vegetalismo practices, or indigen…
Enteógenos e Inteligência Existencial
A partir de recentes mudanças nas legislações em relação às drogas em diferentes países, investiguei o potencial dos enteóg enos (i.e., plantas psicoativas usadas como sacramentos espiritua is) como instrumentos para favorecer a inteligência existencial. Plantas Mestres das Américas como a ayahuasca, os cogumelos de psilocibina, o peiote e o soma indo-ariano da Eurásia , são alguns dos exemplos de enteógenos que foram e continuam a ser utiliza do…
Statement on ayahuasca
Psychoactive Substances and the English Language
This article undertakes a historical ontology of psychoactive substances, or, in other words, an exploration of the philosophical and political nature of modern categories for plants and chemicals that alter consciousness. Drawing on the ideas of Michel Foucault and Ian Hacking and using the method of critical discourse analysis, I elucidate three distinct contemporary meanings of the English word “drug.” Further, I demonstrate how these meanings…
Ayahuasca-Assisted Therapy for Addiction
INTRODUCTION: This paper reports results from a preliminary observational study of ayahuasca-assisted treatment for problematic substance use and stress delivered in a rural First Nations community in British Columbia, Canada. METHODS: The "Working with Addiction and Stress" retreats combined four days of group counselling with two expert-led ayahuasca ceremonies. This study collected pre-treatment and six months follow-up data from 12 participan…
Sex, drugs and the honour roll
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in North America, public health and social reform advocates were quick to identify and exploit the nascent modern institution of public schools as opportune spaces in which to advance their progressive projects. In particular, psychoactive substance use (at first primarily alcohol drinking) and sexuality were regarded as two domains of morally-charged social activity in which desired attitudinal …
A Public-Health-Based Vision for the Management and Regulation of Psychedelics
The Health Officers Council of British Columbia has proposed post-prohibition regulatory models for currently illegal drugs based on public health principles, and this article continues this work by proposing a model for the regulation and management of psychedelics. This article outlines recent research on psychedelic substances and the key determinants of benefit and harm from their use. It then describes a public-health-based model for the reg…
Canadian harm reduction policies
Nourishing the Spirit
Eating disorders (EDs) are serious health conditions that are among the most difficult to treat. Innovative treatments are needed and modalities from across cultures must be considered. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive plant-based tea originally used by Amazonian indigenous groups. A growing body of research points to its promise in the healing of various mental health issues. This study explored the potential therapeutic value of ayahuasca in the con…
Initial results of a drug checking pilot program to detect fentanyl adulteration in a Canadian setting
Drug checking as a potential strategic overdose response in the fentanyl era
Drug checking at an electronic dance music festival during the public health overdose emergency in British Columbia
“We don’t got that kind of time, man. We’re trying to get high!”
The tripping point
Principles, practice, and policy vacuums
The influence of context on ayahuasca experiences
Background and aimsAyahuasca is a psychedelic decoction prepared from two (or more) plants containing monoamine oxidase inhibitors,N,N-dimethyltryptamine, and other chemicals. Ayahuasca has apparently been used for centuries in the Amazon basin of South America, and in recent years has increasingly been used internationally in diverse contexts. This study aims to elucidate differences betweencross-cultural ceremonialandpsychonauticcontexts of aya…
Sharing drug checking results in a Canadian setting
This study revealed that over half the study sample shared their drug checking results with others, with results sharing being positively associated with recent drug dealing, frequent DCS utilisation, employment and ethnicity. Drug checking results were most often shared with friends, family and drug dealers. These findings extend the evidence base of DCS as a harm reduction tool by demonstrating how engagement with DCS facilitates information di…
Medicine (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (9 obras) · Psychiatry (9 obras) · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (8 obras) · Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Ayahuasca (6 obras)